Bigs Quote by Ted Allen

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

— Erma Bombeck

You can get bogged down in a recipe that's got a lot of steps and a million ingredients, and it takes all day to…

— Ina Garten

People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal. There are three days that are really slow for restaurants - Thanksgiving, Christmas…

— Alan K. Simpson

Now the Thanksgiving meal is just so unnecessarily difficult. I mean even mashed potatoes - it's like the most difficult kind of, you know,…

— Jim Gaffigan

Thanksgiving dinner is not an all-you-can-eat buffet. Fill your plate half with vegetables, one quarter with a lean meat and the rest with a…

— Joshua Rosenthal

On Thanksgiving, you realize you're living in a modern world. Millions of turkeys baste themselves in millions of ovens that clean themselves.

— George Carlin

The Thanksgiving tradition is, we gorge. Hey, what about at Thanksgiving we simply consume a considerable measure? However we do that consistently! Goodness. Imagine…

— Jim Gaffigan

Its a great day to kill others shopping and cleaning up this Thanksgiving crap should be left to Grandma.

— Anonymous

It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak.

— Phyllis Diller

Is it normal to make a minute-to-minute schedule for the timing of thanksgiving? I'm asking for a friend.

— Casey Wilson

Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue…

— Debi Mazar

Thanksgiving Day, we do a huge lunch. Big family, like, 60 people, we get together. Everybody brings a covered dish, everybody brings a dessert,…

— Chris Lane